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Specialty Gardening: Which salvias do you like in your cottage garden?, 1 by dmj1218

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dmj1218 wrote:
lots of scutellaria species and hybrids like it dry (great rock garden plants) or are woodland species--and there are tropical species from the mountains of Central America. I like the xeric and woodlanders best myself--I'm really not at all crazy about the oriental or tropical species.

my favorite good xeric species are S drummondii:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/34246/

S resinosa:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/149955/

I like this one but only have seedlings so far:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/179872/

The picture below is S alpina ssp supina--not really blooming good yet--does much better later summer with lots of heat. Its hard for me to find many pics that aren't copyrighted and I don't like to use those on the forums. I have sooooo many pictures that I have to cut out the ones I'm not going to use.